Lives on the Boundary

Remedial,illiterate,intellectuallydeficient—thesearethestigmasthatdefineAmerica'seducationallyunderprepared.Havinggrownuppoorandbeenlabeledthisway,nationallyacclaimededucatorandauthorMikeRosetakesusintoclassroomsandcommunitiestorevealwhatreallyliesbehindthelabelsandtestscores.Withrichdetail,Rosedemonstratesinnovativemethodstoinitiate“problem”studentsintotheworldoflanguage,literature,andwrittenexpression.Thisbookchallengeseducators,policymakers,andparentstore-examinetheirassumptionsaboutthecapacitiesofawiderangeofstudents.Alreadyaclassic,LivesontheBoundaryoffersatrulydemocraticvision,onethat...